Spam reaches its tenth birthday
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 12, 2004 at 3:23:17 PM
That's right, spam is ten years old. It started with none other than a law firm.
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Ten years after Web surfers began using the spam label to describe intrusive online marketing, junk e-mail has ballooned into an epidemic of massive proportions. But righteous anger over the problem has increasingly been replaced by resignation. With no effective solution in sight, many people now ruefully wonder whether the "Internet era" might more accurately be dubbed the "age of spam."